Candlelight Progressive Magic… Again

As the bodies cool from the Manchester attack, the usual routine is making a comeback. There will be candlelight vigils, people will pray to gods they don’t believe in, and buildings around the world will be lit in the usual retinue of national colors. Facebook, in all likelihood, will have some kind of automatic profile picture generator.

Hearts will be drawn on chalk, tears will be shed on TV, and random people who never met before, nor will ever see each other again, will embrace on the streets. Politicians will hold hands and walk together, and everyone will repeat the same mantras we’ve heard a thousand times before.

“We denounce this cowardly attack. We will be strong together…” Yada, yada, yada.

The usual media talking heads will tell us that it is a tragedy, sure, but the worst part is that the white racists of Redneckistan are going to be empowered, and Muslims around the globe will face more racism and Islamophobia. This isn’t the real Islam, they’ll tell us. For Islam is a Religion of Peace.

I don’t know about you, folks, but I’ve no more patience with this. These people believe that hugs, tears, candles, and symbols chalked onto the streets will somehow banish murderous extremists like ISIS. Together, the power of the Care Bear rainbows will banish all badthink to another dimension, or something. I feel like I’m surrounded by emotional toddlers, unable to separate magical fantasy from grounded reality.

Peace with the Islamic world is most assuredly possible, but it won’t come from hearts drawn in the streets, it will come with a price tag in blood and treasure. Islam, after all, has always had bloody borders. And the weakness of the West has only emboldened them.

Stop for a moment and look at it from the angle of an extremely devout Muslim, one who believes in the supremacy of his faith, that Allah punishes those who disobey him, and rewards the faithful. The weakness of the West must appear to such a man to be everything that Allah has said. The West does all sorts of things their faith prohibits, from drinking, to not stoning women who cheat on their husbands, to permitting gays to live.

To them, we are degenerate, and the conquest of our countries, and the killing of our people is perfectly in line with the dictates of their faith. Indeed, it would be shameful to shy away from exterminating us for our sins against Allah. It would be evil, in the minds of such men, to permit us to go unpunished.

Of course, the usual response from the Progressives is “not all Muslims are like that.” And it’s perfectly true. Indeed, most Muslims aren’t like that. Most probably don’t care about what’s going on at an Ariana Grande concert in Britain. But here’s the thing: enough are like that to cause us a great deal of grief and suffering. Surveys and studies have been conducted on this very topic (and these not ones that would be friendly to the right wing point of view), and support of suicide bombing attacks like this are in the double digits, though short of an outright majority, in most Muslim countries, and even many Muslim populations in the West.

Support for Sharia law is an absolute majority in most Muslim countries. In the same study, you see that ISIS is viewed negatively by most Muslims, which seems good… except in many countries, again, there is easily double digit support for them (note that Jordan and Lebanon are very prominent exceptions – their extremist populations are much lower, they seem to be doing something right). This National Review piece goes into some detail as well.

What you find consistently in all this — and it jibes with personal observation as well — is that somewhere between 20 and 25% of Muslims are either extremists themselves, or are supportive of the extremists and their tactics. So sure, most are not “like that” but enough are. And of the non-extremist variety, most still want Sharia law, a form of jurisprudence that is anathema to the West and its notions of human rights. Maybe they don’t feel the need to kill us over it, as their extremist coreligionists do, but that still doesn’t mean that everybody would just get along and sing Kumbaya around the campfires.

Feminists are fond of using “not all men” as a meme, a counterexample, because to them enough men are rapists, in their view. I submit that the percentage of men in the West who support rape, or are rapists themselves, is far less than 20-25%, at least by an order of magnitude if not more. And the remainder certainly do not subscribe to a form of jurisprudence that legitimizes stoning an adulteress to death. Yet that is enough for RadFems to say “yes, all men!”

See the double standard yet?

Something must be done. After all, what is the definition of insanity, if not doing the exact same thing over and over again, expecting things to change?

I’m tired of this in the news. And it has already struck in my part of the world, among people I actually know. It’s getting too common, and too close to home. And let me make this very clear to my readers. If my child were ever killed in such an attack, I would go on a God-damned (and I don’t make this invocation lightly) one man Crusade for vengeance. God may have said “vengeance is mine” but I would damn my soul to Hell to get even with anybody who attacked my family.

So the passivity and magical invocations of the Progressives grates on my nerves. It’s disgustingly naive and utterly insane. It is the man who passively bows down to his executioner instead of fighting to the last. I don’t understand it. I can’t fathom it.

And they won’t do anything to address the problem. It’s sad that so many children suffered in Manchester, but let’s not kid ourselves… they won’t be the last. The blood will continue to run in the streets until the delusional idiots are stripped of power and run out of town, until the hearts on the sidewalk are erased with blood, until the candlelight vigils are seen for the farcical rituals they are.

The Progressives often mock Christians for being believers in a mystical sky wizard, but at least when the Christian man prays, he thinks somebody is on the other end. He thinks that, though his prayer may go unanswered, that someone heard it. The Progressive vigils and prayers go nowhere. They don’t even believe anyone is on the other end. It’s wasted breath, empty ritual stripped of all purpose and meaning.

The Christian, talking to God, believes that somebody is there with him. And if he must suffer, as Christ suffered, then that is the way of it. But at least Christ knows how it is with him, for He suffered likewise. That is why prayer can be a comfort in dire times. What does the prayer of a Progressive atheist offer to anyone, least of all to himself? It’s just theater, posing for the cameras, the useless village idiot saying “look everybody, I’m helping!”

The magic sigils won’t bring back the dead children. They won’t make Islam and the West friendly with one another. They won’t turn back the 20-25% of Muslims who like these attacks, and desire more of them.

And, eventually, the attacks will find their way to folks who won’t put up with it anymore, who will be as violent and angry as I’d be if it happened to my family… and then there will be war. And we’ll pay just as much attention to the lit-up buildings as Muslims do. That is to say, no attention at all.

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I’m every but as wearied to death of the same old, same old useless empty gestures after every bloody Islamic-inspired atrocity as you are. To borrow a Vietnam-era expression – “It don’t mean nothin’.”
That chart left out the routine whine from CAIR or some other Islam-lobby about the anti-muslim backlash, though.

And there will, eventually, be a breaking point. And there will be a backlash, and CAIR will have something to cry about.

We have three choices, and no others. The two that would preserve the West and the lives of its peoples are quarantine and genocide. The third one is surrender to Islam. The time for choosing is upon us.

Nope; no quarantine.
Better to deport them to the place of their birth or to that of their parents or grandparents.

They should deport the ENTIRE family of the terrorists – parents, brothers, sisters , etc , as well as the imam (and his entire family and relatives) of the mosque where the terrorist worshiped.
Terrorists have to be sure that their loved ones will also be accountable as well as his/her imam.

Further , ANYBODY on a terrorist watch list should immediately be deported, along with his family and relatives; as well as the imam of his/her mosque and his entire family and relations. If born in the USA or UK, they should be deported to the birthplace of their parents or grandparents.

Terrorists seek death; it is their redemption and reward for doing allah’s work they believe. Perhaps they – and their friends, relations, imam, etc., – will think twice about doing allah’s work if know with 1000% certainty that they will be destroying the lives of those they actually care about.

Imams living in the West know they have it made. They live with all the modern conveniences and they have hundreds of lemmings looking to him for “guidance.” If these imans knew that if any of their lemmings could mess up his – that is, the imams life style and that of his family, they might just report bad apples to the authorities.

Remember that “clock boy” in Texas who brought in a fake clock bomb to school. Well, his entire family should have been immediately deported and never allowed back into the USA.

Ah, he who once condemned me for my opinion of Islam’s unacceptability is back! Yes, Mike, I remember quite well. But your fantasy is no more realistic today than it was back in the old Palace of Reason days. The majority of Muslims are quite willing to see an apostate killed; indeed, many are willing to do the job themselves. They’re no more indulgent toward the non-Islamic evangelist. So go ahead: feel free to try converting Muslims to some other creed. I’ll be content to watch.

Islam was ideally designed to resist conversion. And in the historical stew in which it first appeared, it makes sense. Arabs, at the time, were surrounded by Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and pagans. Mohammed’s political power originated from his status as being seen as a prophet, which meant if someone converted away from his new religion, his power was correspondingly reduced. So conversion into the religion needed to be easy, and conversion away from it needed to be fatal.

Conversion can work in very limited degrees. Malta, for instance, was once conquered by Islam, and even to this day speaks an Arabic-derived language (with a lot of Latin loan words). It was converted back to Christianity, however.

But let’s be frank. Converting a tiny island like Malta, where it is a simple matter to establish military and police control (so as to prevent converts from being murdered by Muslims) is very different from converting the rest of the Islamic world. Conversion as a path to dealing with Islam can only work in isolated environments where the population is small, and even then it is likely to be very expensive. It won’t work at all in any place where Islam has a large population. The Spanish knew this well enough during the Reconquista.

No, the time for conversation is past, the Palestinians have proved that with Israel. I support closing all mosques in any state or territory a terrorist act is done, if they resist the closings… kill them.

“…I would go on a God-damned (and I don’t make this invocation lightly) one man Crusade for vengeance.”
Your invocation reminds me of my favorite line in a translation of Beowulf:
It is better to avenge the deaths of near and dear ones, than to indulge in mourning.

Trump actually had some very, VERY interesting things to say about Islam and the Umma in his speech in Saudi Arabia the other day.
Listen carefully to his speech. It’s about 38 minutes. In it, sandwiched between well worn platitudes, are some statements that likely made his saudi hosts soil their undies:
1. America stands by its allies.
2. Many of you are our allies.
3. We can’t beat AQ, ISIS, all the other jihadi groups and their ideological supporters on our own.
4. We also can’t stop their funding on our own.
5. But YOU CAN.
6. Drive them OUT of your homes, your villages, your holy places. DRIVE THEM OUT. DRIVE. THEM. OUT!
7. We will SUPPORT you.

Oh, brother.
Some background:
Iran is Shia. They have been a menace to Sunni Saudi Arabia and the control of the House of Saud over Mecca and Medina for nearly 4 decades. That danger has escalated dramatically for several reasons:
1. Like an ivory tower academic, Obama tried to coddle the Ayatollahs by saying “We’re really sorry about how bad we are, America has been BAD to you! Here’s $150B, come and play with us!” Yes, you read that right – Obama released $150B of sequestered bank reserves to the Ayatollahs in exchange for getting them to sign a piece of paper that the mullahs value less than toilet tissue.
2. The House of Saud CREATED ISIS, folks. They are, in fact, the progenitors of every single sunni jihadi group today and every one that has ever existed since the late 1960’s and the heyday of the PLO (whose ideological underpinnings are PURELY jihadi.) ISIS was created as primarily an irregular militia to keep Iran and Syria physically seperate, despite Iran’s success in turning shia-majority Iraq into a client state. But ISIS is about to be defeated in north Iraq and there will indeed be a land bridge (with accompanying oil and NG pipelines) between Iran and Syria quite soon.
3. The house of Saud is running out of time. Their oil reserves will run dry within the next 10-15 years. They will revert to exporting NG afterwards, but their supplies are much smaller and they will never be able to return to the days of their peak revenue from oil.

By placing the responsibility of defeating sunni jihadism on the Arabs, Trump was telling the House of Saud that their 270 year alliance of convenience (and theological legitimization) with the Wahhabi clerics had to end and that they needed to stop the flow of funds to jihadi groups, the wahhabi madrassas that indoctrinate their cadres worldwide, and the wahhabi clergy themselves.

I don’t know if I share your interpretation of Trump’s recent actions. But if you are right, that would mark a pleasant enough change, even if it radically upsets the balance of power in the Middle East (which almost always implies a shitload of warfare).

Agreed. If the House of Saud bites the bullet and endeavors to jettison the Wahhabi, it’ll be incredibly bloody.
The Wahhabi originally supported the House of Saud in the mid 1700’s (back then, the house of Saud was a minor clan limited mostly to Riyadh and the surrounding area) and gave them a theological ‘legitimacy’ in exchange for protection and financing. Things got really interesting starting, as far as I can tell, in the 1950’s, when oil revenues started become quite significant. At that point, the Wahhabi used their ‘piece of the action’ to build madrassas all over the Dar Al Islam, staffing them with ‘teachers’ who would promulgate their orthodox version of the faith (and their claim that they represent the original faith as it was practiced in the early days of the Abbasid Caliphate has a great deal of merit – but that’s another story.) These madrassas deliberately recruited orphans and boys who were the last in line in their father’s family, and thus effectively dispossessed and unrespected. They ‘teach’ these boys (who normally arrive with minimal or no education) not generally to read the koran, but mostly to recite it – repeating certain picked slogans from the koran again and again and again, like a hypnotic chant. These chants become quite frenzied. They reinforce these ‘lessons’ with starvation, beatings and rape. From these….rabid dogs, they formed the cadres that joined the PLO and all the other jihadi organizations since.
The trick the wahhabi had learned was an old one, stemming from the days of the Abbasid Caliphate which had displaced the Ummayads (who were from the family and tribe of Muhammad himself.) It is a trick well known by Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung and professional torturers.
The trick is this:the human mind depends heavily on gathering information from the environment. From this information the mind tries to form patterns that can serve as guides for future behavior. In this way, humans became extraordinarily adept at hunting, foraging for natural fruits and vegetables and so forth.
Now: if you deprive the human mind of information, it STARVES for it. Once it gets a grip on even the tiniest fragment of info, it begins forming elaborate patterns with it quite spontaneously. Using this, along with physical torture and humiliation, you can create Dogs of War from people. It’s why the members of ISIS and AQ are so comfortable with gang raping girls and boys, murdering women and children, burning people alive, throwing gay people off buildings and so forth. It’s also why they are pretty comfortable turning themselves into suicide bombers – life, to them, is a horror. Ending it with the promise of virgins in paradise is actually very appealing.
Some more useful history:
“Coincidentally” with the rise of the Abbasid was the rise of Abbasid-built madrassas that ‘instructed’ students with the ‘real’ koran. In fact, the koran used today is the same, appearing roughly one century after the death of mohammed and proclaimed by Abbasid-hired ‘authorities’ as being the one, genuine koran. At least 100 older copies – all different from today’s tome and from each other – have been discovered over the years, but I’m not aware of any systematic study on the discrepancies between all of them.
Anyway: along with training cadres of sunni jihadists/’ghazi’, the Wahhabi instill in them the idea that the House of Saud is NOT the legitimate defender of the two Holy Places in the arabian peninsula, teaching the acolytes (rightly, as it turns out) that the house of Saud is vile, corrupt and utterly debauched. This is why AQ and other outfits sometimes attack targets in Saudi Arabia – the Wahhabi clerics have ensured that the Saudi potentates continue providing funds and logistic support not just thru loyalty, but also thru fear.
How this will all sort itself out will be ‘interesting’ to watch. The Wahhabi are Sunni, but readily kill other sunni who aren’t exactly like them. As one might expect, they also deeply loathe the Shia. Back in the late 1700’s (if memory serves), the Wahhabi tried to cast off the yoke of the Ottoman Turks and invaded Mesopotamia, destroying shia shrines and killing 150,000 ‘apostates.’ The Ottomans put down the revolt with some difficulty.
As best as I can tell, there are easily hundreds of thousands of Wahhabi madrassa ‘graduates’ milling around the Dar Al Islam who are of prime military age. If you extend that to 18-55, there are millions. If the House of Saud moves against them, they will have to not only start rounding up and killing acolytes and clerics, but quite a few members of the Royal family who support the wahhabi enthusiastically. It is unlikely the Wahhabi will approach the Iranian mullahs for assistance – that would take a level of rationality that they typically don’t have. But one never knows. The Shia are not immune from the idea of having War Dogs amongst them – the Hashashin are a good example.
How the Turks will react to all of this will be interesting. They are mostly Sunni, though there are significant numbers of Sufi among them; also, they are Turks, and there are centuries of bitter hostility between turks and arabs.
Anyway: Whatever happens, it won’t be pretty.

The time for solidarity and support is over. Solidarity and support and #PrayForX hashtags may actually be doing more harm than good. It’s time for #FuckYouManchester, because they let their girls die. Say prayers for the souls of the dead, and heap scorn and shame on a city that celebrates and welcomes its own invasion by the murderers of its children. Fuck you, Manchester. No more solidarity with treasonous enemies of God.

Solidarity is a functionally useless term these days. Perhaps once it applied actually doing something for one’s chosen cause. Today, it implies nothing other than well-wishes that might not even be sincere.

I like the hashtag idea, though it may be better directed at higher levels. #FuckYouBrussels.

“Solidarity and support and #PrayForX hashtags may actually be doing more harm than good.”
You are exactly right. As I said commenting on the anointed, here is a case where the left is caught by their own ideology as surely as fly in honey. They can’t admit any wrong for if they do all will fall. So the vigils, candles, and hash tags will continue ad infinitum. The same with Islamists. They can never admit that anything that they believe is wrong, for if so all would be wrong.
The two have found each other and in a benighted way serve each other.

Query: why waste your mental energy and electronic ink on this? The people of Western Europe have voted for this, repeatedly, for over 30 years. As Obama said, elections have consequences. They are getting precisely what they deserve.

Amen. Around here it’s American flags at half-staff. That’s about the worst of any of these weak-signaling, public shows, as it proclaims that those losers in Manchester, UK, somehow brought the entire United States to its knees.

Also, I respect you and writing enough to point out something you and your readers may not want to hear. About 60 percent of the way through the above essay you use the word “jive” when you clearly meant “jibe.” Your writing is still excellent, but word choice does matter.

Flags are so often flown at half-staff nowadays that I’ve given up on thinking I ought to know what the reason is. I just shrug and think “Oh, something, somewhere, made someone at the State Department sad. That’s too bad.” Death of a former President? No, death of a celebrity. National catastrophe? No, entirely preventable terrorist attack in a foreign country. Day of civic obligation? No, anniversary of some sodomites reaping the wages of sin.

There may be no more meaningless gesture than flying a flag at half-staff. You see it so often you don’t even notice the signaling.

So it is some, but not all. But unlike cancerous cells, we can not identify them before the fact. So how do we separate the wheat from the chaff? Or, to torture another metaphor, do we just throw the baby out with the bath water?

Seriously, a proactive approach saves lives. A reactive approach only provides some solace to the grieving. My background and training (not to mention my genetic heritage) says let the other man grieve. (Of course make sure of your specific target; do not just drone the village.)

The ‘root’ of this is a bit layered.
The House of Saud uses it’s near 300 year alliance with the ultra-orthodox Wahhabi clerics to give it legitimacy as the caretakers of Mecca and Medina. The Wahhabi use the financial strength of the House of Saud, provided both directly and secretly, to spread their psychotic poison throughout the Dar Al Islam.

The next layer:
The Wahhabi received their tactics, operational doctrine and strategy from their copying the methods of the Abbasid Caliphate. Based on the legitimization of their version of the Koran and their use of it to create armies of jihadists, the Abbasid spread Islam from Indonesia and the southern Phillipines to Spain and Morocco.

Trump is trying to deal with the upper layer, by forcing a break between the House of Saud and the Wahhabi, pledging his support to the house of Saud and all the other Sunni regimes against the Wahhabi and the Iranian mullahs if they eradicate the Wahhabi and their acolytes once and for all. Achieving that will already be a monumental victory.

But in the end, someone will have to convince the Kuwaiti royal family to provide much easier access to the hundreds of older versions of the Koran that they are safekeeping, as well as convince the House of Saud that they need to allow unrestricted historical inquiry into the history of the Arabian peninsula, including the period when Islam was born and even beforehand. There are apparently hundreds of ruins scattered thru the peninsula, mostly buried under sand, built by the pre-Islamic society that existed in Arabia. These ruins, of course, are absolutely off limits to exploration and study of any kind.

I suspect the roots of Islam would be revealed to be a combination of then-existing judaic, hindu and native religious doctrines if the above freedom of inquiry were to come about. We shall have to wait and see, naturally.

When Islam is ‘unmasked’ and subject to open, unrestrained scrutiny, it will be finally disarmed. Whether it actually survives as a religion, let alone as a feudal system combining religious, social, economic and political power under the hand of a Caliph and an elite selection of arisocratic sultans, sheiks and clerics, is debatable, of course.

The left actually mocks Republicans and conservatives for offering thought and prayers when they believe that a terrorist act was perpetrated by a right wing gun zealot. Look at twitter for reactions right after the Orlando gay club shooting when they thought it was an anti-gay right wing gun enthusiast. They were all full of rage against those not supporting stricter gun control and mocking us for offering thoughts and prayers. Yet, when it’s pretty obvious that the perpetrator is an Islamic extremist, then it’s all vigils, hashtags, facebook profile pic support, etc etc.